Authorizing an $89,815.00 professional services agreement with Management Partners Inc. for a Performance Measurement and Benchmarking Program for the Water Services Department; and authorizing expenditure of funding therefor.

Authorizing an $89,815.00 professional services agreement
with Management Partners Inc. for a Performance Measurement and Benchmarking
Program for the Water Services Department; and authorizing expenditure of
funding therefor.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:

Section 1. That the Director of Water Services is
hereby authorized to execute, on behalf of City, an $89,815.00 professional
services agreement with Management Partners Inc. for a Performance Measurement
and Benchmarking Program for the Water Services Department. A copy of the
agreement is on file in the office of the Director of Water Services.

Section 2. That the Director of Water Services is
further authorized to expend up to the sum of $89,815.00 from funds previously
appropriated to the following accounts to satisfy the cost of this agreement.

97-801-080-7704-T $45,000.00
97-811-080-7726-T $44,815.00

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I hereby certify that there is a balance, otherwise
unencumbered, to the credit of the appropriation to which the foregoing
expenditure is to be charged, and a cash balance, otherwise unencumbered, in
the treasury, to the credit of the fund from which payment is to be made, each
sufficient to meet the obligation hereby incurred.